A Chicago man faces a murder charge alleging he shot a friend dead in Hammond “over a girl”.
Lamont “Ski” Turentine, 29, is in custody in Cook County, Illinois, and is scheduled to be extradited to Indiana.
The victim Tyran “Moses” or “M Thang” Bolling, 25, was shot dead on Dec. 13, 2019 in front of a home on the 4400 block of Henry Avenue in Hammond.
Court records allege he was seeing Turentine’s girlfriend behind his back.
Charges were unsealed Wednesday. The next court date before Lake Superior Judge Samuel Cappas is not yet set.
Hammond Police were called to the crime scene at 12:13 a.m. where they found Bolling lying on the ground in front of a house, shot “multiple times” in the leg, chest and face.
He was taken to Franciscan Health Hammond where he was pronounced dead, according to court documents.
Police recovered six 9-mm bullet casings from the same gun and Bolling’s iPhone in a red case nearby.
A witness told police Bolling was shot 4-5 times by a man who got out of an older black car, according to the affidavit.
Police learned Bolling was allegedly involved with a woman nicknamed “Money” and was “good friends” with her boyfriend “Ski”, according to the affidavit.
Police checked records for the couple’s former place on the 900 block of Summer Street, finding two domestic disturbance calls that listed a woman, Turentine and/or Bolling.
Facebook messages showed the woman was headed to pick Bolling up that night.
Police learned Turentine drove a 1998 Honda Civic from a Oct. 8, 2019 traffic stop.
The car appeared to be captured heading to Hammond from Chicago in the area near the time of Bolling’s shooting by traffic and gas station cameras.
A DNA hit on bullet casings led police to another man who knew Turentine, who was on an Illinois ankle monitor and verified on house arrest in Chicago at the time. He has not been charged in the shooting.
Police asked how his DNA got on the bullet casings.
“I don’t know, probably gave someone some bullets…it’s Chicago,” he said, according to records.
“I can’t tell you he did that. We all felt like he did it, but there ain’t no witnesses,” the man said. “I don’t know if he did it.”
Investigators asked if he killed Bolling.
“Hell no, I loved Moses,” the man said.
Cell phone records and Facebook messages appeared to show Turentine and the woman headed to Arkansas, then New Orleans after the shooting.
Turentine was seen punching a woman in the face in the mall in a nearby Parish (county) , but the woman left before police could talk to her.
Another Louisiana police report named the woman with Turentine in November 2020. She has not been charged.
